2015 in Sweden
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The following lists events that happened in 2015 in Sweden.
Incumbents[edit]
Events[edit]
- 10 August: Västerås IKEA stabbing attack
- 18 March: 2015 Gothenburg pub shooting
- 23 May: Måns Zelmerlöw's song Heroes wins the Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna, Austria.
- 22 October: Trollhättan school stabbing
- 12 November: Shopping mall Mall of Scandinavia is inaugurated in Solna.[1]
- The Sweden Democrats announced that they would break ties with its youth league Sweden Democratic Youth for its Radical Ultranationalism.
Deaths[edit]
- 11 January – Anita Ekberg, actress (b. 1931).[2]
- 26 March – Tomas Tranströmer, Nobel poet and translator (b. 1931).
- 30 April – Lennart Bodström, politician (b. 1928).
- 4 June – Bengt Berndtsson, footballer (b. 1933).
- 5 October – Henning Mankell, author (b. 1948).
- 21 November – Linda Haglund, 59, short-distance runner (b. 1956).
- 19 December – Karin Söder, politician (b. 1928).
- 22 December – Peter Lundblad, 65, singer (b. 1950).[3]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Lisa Berthelson (12 November 2015). "Vi är där när Mall of Scandinavia öppnar" (in Swedish). Handelsnytt. Retrieved 7 August 2022.
- ^ "Anita Ekberg". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2015. Archived from the original on 11 January 2015. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
- ^ "Sångaren Peter Lundblad död" (in Swedish). Sveriges Television. 23 December 2015. Retrieved 25 December 2015.
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